re: LotRO player's Guide to the Chat

In this guide I want to tell you about the chat system in lotro, and how to make the most out of it. Almost everybody uses the chat but many people use it ineffectively or still have questions.

Different channels:

As you may know the chat in LotRO is divided into channels, these are:

Name:

Range:

Used for:

Say

Area inside minimap

Communicating with multiple players outside your Fellowship or Raid

Fellowship

Serverwide

Communicating with your Fellowship

Kinship

Serverwide

Communicating with your Kinship

Advice

Region

Asking for advice within your region (not used that often)

Emote

Area inside minimap

Custom emotes (automatically adds your name in front of everything you say)

LFF (Looking For Friends - uhh Fellowship)

Region

Looking for a fellowship, often for local instances (Not used that often)

OOC (Out Of Character)

Region

Talking out of character on Roleplay servers, also as general chat in the Ettenmoors

Officer

Serverwide

Communication between the officers of a Kinship, not visible for recruits and/or kinsmen/women

RP

Serverwide

Roleplaying on non-roleplay servers

Raid

Serverwide

Communicating with your Raid

Regional

Region

Communicating within your Region (Not used that often)

Trade

Region

Trading within your Region (Not used that often)

World

Serverwide

Joining Instances, trading, complaining about the state of the world

IM (Instant Messaging)

Serverwide

Personal communication

These channels can be joined by clicking the little speech bubble in the bottom left of your chat-window or using the different commands like /f for fellowship chat.

Commands:

LotRO uses commands to do a lot of different things, and there's too many of them to list them all here. Some usefull commands include:

Command:

Effect:

/joinchannel *channelname * *password*

Joins or creates a user chat channel with the given name, password is optional

/1, /2, /3, /4

Talk in a user chat channel

/stuck

Teleports you to the nearest 'revival spot' after a 1 minute countdown

/played

Tells you how much time you've played on this character (Not for the faint of heart, or pregant)

/cpet rename *name*

Renames your cosmetic pet

/exit

Closes the game

Chat tabs:

As you may have noticed some channels *ahem* World *ahem* can be quite busy and can 'drown out' other channels. For this I recommend putting World in a seperate tab, to do this you have to:

Right click on any tab

Click 'Create new tab'

Right click on the new tab

Click 'Change filters'

Make sure World has a check behind it

Right click on your main tab(s)

Click 'Change filters'

Make sure World isn't checked

I also use a seperate tab for channels I need to keep an eye on like Raid, Fellowship, Kinship and IM. You can drag to a open spot in your UI to create a new chat window (I personally use 2 windows).

Chat colors:

For some reason LotRO uses the color white (or lack-of-color whatever) for multiple channels, I recommend changing the color of your Raid channel if you have it in the same tab as World or Say, to do this you have to:

Right click on any tab

Click 'change text colours'

Or alternatively go to Options > Chat.

Item links:

Maybe you've seen people display their items in chat before, this is done by either pressing CTRL + Right Click on the item, or dragging it to your input bar.